This is the latin root and its meaning in, excavation.
What is cavus, meaning hollow?
100
These pictures help to demonstrate the word haunting and how many lives were lost.
What are the graphic sources on page 215?
100
This is the cause of the the adventurers' fear in Journey to the Center of the Earth.
What is being in between the fight of two huge beasts?
100
This is the author's main purpose in, The Skunk Ladder.
What is to entertain?
100
This is the main character in, The Skunk Ladder, that you are more like and why.
What is Eddie because he is adventurous? Or who is the author because is is more cautious?
200
This multiple meaning word on page 238, paragraph one, means a course of action that one takes.
What is formal?
200
This is the type of graphic source on pages 206 and 207 that picks out the key events and time/dates related to the sinking of the Titanic.
What is a time line?
200
Because each of the prehistoric beasts was made up of several different animal parts, the adventurers first had this thought.
What is there are more than 2 beasts?
200
This is a multiple meaning word on p. 211 that refers to a part of the ship.
What is bow?
200
This is a strategy that you should use while reading to help monitor and improve your understanding that requires the reader to pick out the key events in a selection.
What is summarizing?
300
These words are context clues to help determine the meaning of primitive, on page 270.
What are human eyes, fossilized, bones, extinct?
300
The photograph on pages 240 and 241 depicts either this mission by Ochoa.
What is Atlantis because of the words tis being visible?
300
This is the author's purpose in Talk with an Astronaut.
What is to inform about the process and qualities involved with becoming an astronaut?
300
This prefix means, not.
What is in?
300
This is another question that you could ask Ellen Ochoa.
What are some of your other duties during training? (accept other reasonable questions)
400
This prefix means, too much.
What is over?
400
This text feature shows what mode of transportation was used by the settlers as they moved westward.
What is the caption on the bottom of page 296
400
This is a generalization made on page 294.
What is Most were once mining camps where adventurous men came to seek their fortunes
400
This is a broad statement that can be made based upon several examples.
What is a generalization?
400
This reading strategy improves your understanding and enjoyment of a selection by creating a mental picture while reading.
What is visualizing while reading?
500
This is the latin root and its meaning for the word on page 176 meaning, a vessel that goes under the sea.
What is mare, meaning related to the sea?
500
This graphic source shows how people might have been persuaded to buy tickets for the titanic journey due to how majestic the boat looks.
What is the 1912 poster advertising the Titanic?
500
This is a conclusion we can make about the characteristics needed to be an astronaut.
What are intelligent, hardworking, or daring?
500
This is the author's purpose for writing, The Unsinkable Wreck of the R.M.S. Titanic
What is to inform the reader about the sinking of the titanic and all there is to explore with its wreckage.
500
These sensory details on page 297 help to create a visualization.
What are stalwart, muscular, worn out pots? (accept other possible responses as well)